Kitchen-steel holder.



Inventor Attorneys 4 MARIA T. HATI-IAWAY, 0F BIGTIMBER, MONTANA.

KITCHEN-STEEL I-IC LDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J an. 7, 1913.

Application filed April 3, 1912. Serial No. 688,288.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARIA T. Harrin- WAY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bigtimber, in the county of Sweet Grass and State of Montana, have invented a new i and useful Kitchen-Steel Holder, of which the following is a specification.

The device forming the subject matter of this application is adapted to be employed for connecting a whet, such as a steel with the top of a range, or with other like supports.

One object of the present invention is to provide a device of this type in which the whet may be made to reinforce the structure to engage properly with a support.

Another object of the invention is to pro vide a device of this type in which a single element constitutes at once a means for holding the whet and a means for maintaining the device engaged with a support.

A further object of the invention is to provide a holder of the sort hereinafter described, in which the clamp is transversely adjustable, wherel y to permit the clamp to clear the support wherewith the device is assembled, and to permit an adjustment of the whet-holding portion of the structure, whereby such portion may be made to accommodate whets of different diameters.

With the above and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings-Figure 1 shows the invention in elevation, applied to the top of a stove; Fig. 2 shows the invention in top plan, applied to a stove; Fig. 3 shows the invention in transverse section, a portion of the stove being sectioned; and Fig. 4 shows the invention in perspective, assembled with the whet.

In the accompanying drawings, the nu meral 1 indicates the top of a stove, the same being provided, as usual, with a depending flange 2 about its periphery.

The numeral 3 indicates a whet, the same being, when desired, the common and well known tool known as a steel upon which knives are manually sharpened.

The invention contemplates the use of two or more holders whereby the whet 3 is assembled with the flange 2 or the stove, butsince these holders are of identical construction, but one of them will be described in detail.

The holder herein disclosed. is fashioned from a resilient strip of metal curved reversely upon itself to form a primary, whetholding loop at and to form an oppositely extended secondary loop 5. The primary loop 4 terminates in a primary tongue 6 which bears against the secondary loop 5. The secondary loop 5 terminates in a secondary tongue 7. It is between the second ary tongue 7 and the primary loop 4 that the depending flange 2 of the stove or other support is engaged.

A clamping device denoted generally by the numeral 8 is provided, the clamping device comprising a headed bolt 9 engaging the rear face of the secondary loop 5 and a wing nut 10 engaging the front face of the primary tongue 6, the bolt 9 being trans. 'vcrsely adjustable in elongated slots 11 fashioned in the primary tongue 6 and in both walls of the secondary loop 5.

In practical operation, the flange 2 is en gaged between the secondary tongue 7 and the primary loop 4. When the wing nut 10 is rotated, the flange 2 will be gripped between the secondary tongue 7 and the primary loop 4-. Because the whet 3 is held by the primary loop 4-, the primary loop is reinforced by the whet, so that the primary loop will not yield when the wing nut 10 is rotated. A secure grip upon the flange 2 is thus afforded.

The secondary loop 5 is resilient, and owing to the resiliency of this element, the wing nut 10 and the bolt 9 are held against rotation. Consequently, an accidental displacement of the clamp 8 will be prevented when the wing nut 10 is tightened down upon the primary tongue 6.

Owing to the presence or the slots 11 and because the bolt 9 is transversely adjustable therein, the bolt 9 may be made to clear the lower edge of the flange 2, and thus the secondary tongue 7 will. be given a proper hold upon the flange. lit will be understood readily that since the bolt 8 is transversely adjustable in the slots 11, whet-s 3 of diilerentdiameters may be successively mounted in the primary loop 4:.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is:

A device for securing a whet to a support and comprising a resilient strip reversely curved to form a primary whet-holding loop and to form an oppositely extended secondary loop, the primary loop terminating in a primary tongue and the secondary loop comprising independently compressible parts, one of which terminates in a secondary tongue, the secondary tongue extended to the bend of the primary loop and located entirely to one side of the primary loop, the secondary tongue and the primary loop constitut-ing cooperating means to engage a support; and a clamping device engaged with the secondary loop and with the primary tongue to bind the primary loop upon the whet and to cause the secondary tongue and the primary loop to grip the support, the clamp including a bolt and a rotatable element, and both parts of the secondary loop constituting resilient means for preventing the rotation of said element; there being elongated openings in both parts of the secondaryloop and in the primary tongue, in which openings the bolt is transversely adjustable, to permit the primary loop to engage whets of different sizes and to permit the clamp to clear the support wherewith the device is assembled.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto afliXed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

' MARIA T. HATHAWAY.

Witnesses:

J. B. SnLTnns, CHAS. O. HATHAWAY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. G. 

